The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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... connected that an artist in words is necessarily an artist in thoughts.— WILSON FLAGG . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell ...
... connected that an artist in words is necessarily an artist in thoughts.— WILSON FLAGG . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell ...
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... term is insisted upon . But it is often noticed by foreigners as both making us more readily understood by them when speaking our own tongue , and as connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us THE VERBALIST . 27.
... term is insisted upon . But it is often noticed by foreigners as both making us more readily understood by them when speaking our own tongue , and as connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us THE VERBALIST . 27.
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... connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us to acquire a better pronunciation of other languages than is usual with Englishmen . In any case , as , in spite of the old adage , speech is given us that we may make ourselves ...
... connected with a flexibility of organ , which enables us to acquire a better pronunciation of other languages than is usual with Englishmen . In any case , as , in spite of the old adage , speech is given us that we may make ourselves ...
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... reason being assigned . ' boy died through his clothes being burned . ' ' We hear little of any connection being kept up between the two nations . ' ' The LINESS . ' The men rowed vigorously for fear of THE VERBALIST . 33.
... reason being assigned . ' boy died through his clothes being burned . ' ' We hear little of any connection being kept up between the two nations . ' ' The LINESS . ' The men rowed vigorously for fear of THE VERBALIST . 33.
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... connected composition . Bad dic- tion may be due to errors in grammar , to a confused dispo- sition of words , or to an improper use of words . Diction , to be good , requires to be only correct and clear . Of ex- cellent examples of ...
... connected composition . Bad dic- tion may be due to errors in grammar , to a confused dispo- sition of words , or to an improper use of words . Diction , to be good , requires to be only correct and clear . Of ex- cellent examples of ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis English English Language error euphonious example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter means meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun proper properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown sense sentence simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence tense term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar woman word is sometimes